I just have to tell you all about a great kindness you don't find much these days and from a commercial company. I've been looking for some voile material for a window, something different in a colour I liked. Browsing the internet I came across this company and the colours are too die for, I just love colour, any colour. http://www.premiervoile.com/

I sent them an email asking about the price and where could I buy it. The prices were way over my head so I asked if they had the winning lottery numbers and I was returning to my dreams. They asked how much I needed and my address, they sent it to me for free. I was very overcome by such kindness the price would've been over £200. Can you believe it, at a time of the credit crunch this company has sent me free some gorgeous material I'm now frightened to stitch Actually I'm itching to see the voile up. I just wish there was a way to repay such a service.I'm still in shock, this doesn't happen these days...or does it?  Anyone else had a  happy experience like this?

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I've signed the petition for Gurkhas to have the right to stay in this country, they are fighting and dying for us Brits even now and I think the government is treating them so unfairly. If you want to sign the petition the url is   http://www.gurkhajustice.org.uk/

Everyone who has signed receives an update from Joanna Lumley, here is the latest email from her.

I have some great news about the Gurkha Justice campaign that I want to update you on.

Firstly, we now have over 120,000 online signatures with over 20,000 returned in the post. If you haven't done so already, please spread the word to all your online contacts and ask them to sign up online too at www.gurkhajustice.org.uk

Second, there have been some exciting steps forward in the House of Commons.

Earlier this week the Home Affairs Committee of the House of Commons considered the right of Gurkhas to settle in the UK. The committee considered evidence from a range of different people, including our lawyers, a submission from me, and representatives from a number of Gurkha organisations.

I'm so pleased to be able to tell you that they agreed with us entirely, and have sent a letter to the Home Secretary urging her to take "urgent action to redress the currently unfair situation by extending settlement rights in the UK to all Gurkhas". You can read the full text of the letter at http://tinyurl.com/5ou59q

This is a big step forward, with an influential cross-Party committee of MPs backing our cause. This is on top of the High Court's ruling in late September that the Government's action was "unlawful and unfair".

But just unbelievably, the Government has still not changed the law, and has still not yet agreed to offer a fair deal for Gurkhas.

In this week in particular, when we have seen the tragic death of a Gurkha serving in the British Army in Afghanistan, and four soldiers from the Royal Gurkha Rifles awarded the Military Cross, we need to redouble our efforts to make the Government see sense.

Please do whatever you can to ask as many people as you can to sign the petition at www.gurkhajustice.org.uk

- I want to take a simply huge petition to Downing Street on the 20th November.

And I'd like you to join me in Parliament Square, Westminster, at 11am on Thursday 20th November, before we hand in the petition. I want to stand together with you and our Gurkha heroes and show just how strong the support for the Gurkhas cause is. Will you join me? I hope to see you there.

Finally, especially for those who can join me on the 20th of November, you can buy Gurkha Justice t-shirts, sweatshirts, bags and more from our online shop with Spreadshirt at http://gurkhajustice.spreadshirt.net

. Wear yours with pride - I certainly do - and for the next few days only (until this Sunday), Spreadshirt are offering free postage on all items to show their support for the campaign. Simply use the coupon code GURKHAFREE when ordering, and the postage for your items should be free.

With warmest good wishes,

Joanna
www.gurkhajustice.org.uk

PS. On Sunday, millions of us across the Country will be honouring those who fought and died for us on Remembrance Sunday.

One hundred thousand Gurkhas fought in the First World War. They served in the battlefields of France in the Loos, Givenchy, Neuve Chapelle and Ypres; in Mesopotamia, Persia, Suez Canal and Palestine against Turkish advance, Gallipoli and Salonika. One detachment served with Lawrence of Arabia. 250,000 Nepalese Gurkhas served in the Second World War.

It's time to repay our debt of honour to them. www.gurkhajustice.org.uk

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Glastonbury starts this weekend, for those that don't know its a major open air music festival. It always rains at Glastonbury, it must be traditional now, my oldest lad used to go every year but I notice now he's getting older he's switched to the Isle of Wight, its dryer and mud doesn't hold as much appeal when you're the back end 30.

A widget from the Beeb if anyone wants to watch it.I hope the code works.

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For the first time the house is empty of kids. The last 2 have both gone away, one to the Isle of Wight festival the other on RAF training. Was I going to miss them? no way they are  doing what they should fledging the nest, so what is this horrible pain like indigestion around my middle region and the lump in the throat. Why when I walk the dogs do the crashing of the waves seem so loud and traffic noise is deafening and the silence of the house is ...well silent. No guitar playing, no mobile phones ringing, no  thundering down the stairs, even the dogs seem subdued.Thank  goodness one will be back next week. 

I found this and thought I'd share it with you, I think its funny.

A minister decided to do something a little different one Sunday morning.


He said "Today, in church, I am going to say a single word and you are going to help me preach.

Whatever single word I say, I want you to sing whatever hymn that comes into your mind"

The pastor shouted out "CROSS."

Immediately the congregation started singing in unison, "THE OLD RUGGED CROSS."

The pastor hollered out "GRACE."

The congregation began to sing "AMAZING GRACE, how sweet the sound."

The pastor said "POWER."

The congregation sang "THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD."

The Pastor said "SEX" The congregation fell into total silence.

Everyone was in shock. They all nervously began to look around at each other afraid to say anything.

Then all of a sudden, from the back of the church,

A little old 87 year old grandmother stood up and began to sing ..
"MEMORIES."

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I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off?  He's all right now.

The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.

The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.

To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.

The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.

Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.

We'll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.

When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U C L A.

The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.

The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.

The dead batteries were given out free of charge.

If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.

A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.

Just to brighten this very wet weekend.

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A woman was sitting at a bar enjoying an after-work cocktail with her girlfriends when an exceptionally tall, handsome, extremely sexy, middle-aged man entered. He was so striking that the woman could not take her eyes off him.

The young-at-heart man noticed her overly attentive stare and walked directly toward her (as all men will). Before she could offer her apologies for staring so rudely, he leaned over and whispered to her, "I'll do anything, absolutely anything, that you want me to do, no matter how kinky, for twenty dollars ... on one condition."

Flabbergasted, the woman asked what the condition was.  

The man replied, "You have to tell me what you want me to do in just three words."

The woman considered his proposition for a moment, and then slowly removed a twenty-dollar bill from her purse, which she pressed into the man's hand along with her address.  She looked deeply into his eyes, and slowly and meaningfully said, "Clean my house."

Oh I wish....

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I've been thinking all day its Wednesday, I find out, now the day is nearly over, its Thursday and I just better hope the rest of the week is dry. Our Sarah wants to do her packing at the weekend and I've got a load of washing, the weather has been too wet to peg it out, I won't use the dryer, it shrinks everything. Today has been the perfect drying day but my washing machine has sung its swan song and  a smell of burning fills the air  when it should be wet washing. I've got another machine coming tomorrow, fingers crossed all goes well. Sarah is off next week to do her basic RAF training, I hope she gets through it okay.

I tidied up the garden a bit and planted a few things in some trugs, I find them much more colourful than pots and they overwinter okay.I think I might have to dig up a bit more of the lawn, I'm running out of space for plants, well now the kids are grown up they don't need it for playing in.

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Its been a glorious day, sun is shining, birds are singing, they are now in the bird bath, loads of them. My youngest daughter Sarah and myself took the dogs for a walk through the woods and I had such plans for the day. I was going to mow the lawn, get the garden straight, catch up with washing, so why then does sods law come into play and make me feel thoroughly lazy and worn out, I was bursting with energy yesterday in the rain, oh alright bursting and had a bit of a spurt on. I did manage to take some photos of the garden, I've put them in my pictures but how much energy does that use up. I'm looking forward to tele tonight, 'I'll do anything,' I wonder what 2 Nancies will be left, my favourites went weeks ago. As long as he needs me

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What a day, got soaked taking the dogs out, its been tipping it down. It was dry for a bit this morning and I nipped round B&Q's to get some compost, well I couldn't resist looking at the plants as well and a couple came home with me, a blue clematis and pink oleander. I'm hoping the oleander will over winter outside, its a first for me, I think maybe I'll cover it later in the year, just in case.I'll post some pics if the rain stops long enough, been a real miserable week.

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